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Beautifully done Debbie. Fantastic composition and the HDR is well balanced. This reminds me of a room where our quartet once spent an afternoon. Sat around for hours singing for ourselves. Later noticed some guests hanging out and about listening in. #1451674

Phantastic, Debbie. I have a picture of a southwestern doorway with just this theme and colors hanging over my fireplace.

The only comment I would make, there is a long vertical and shorter horizontal bright edge to the wall on the right. The frame the contours of the wall well, but the tonality seems out of place to me. #10052406

I can only wish. This was where we stayed on our short trip to Santa Fe last Easter. Wish we could make it an annual Easter thing. There is a grand piano in this room - on the other side of the stairwell and someone was always playing it and they were well accomplished pianists so it was like having a free concert. This is a wedding destination B&B and yes, there was a wedding while we were there but we were in Santa Fe itself when that was going on.

Stephen, how would you suggest I address the tonality issue. I think I see what you are talking about, This was a sky replacement in all of the windows because it was so bright there was no blue in the sky which is probably why it looks off. #10052622

Several years ago I read an OP article describing the Healing Brush. I use that tool a lot more than the clone tool. It appears to work here. Just a selection next to the bright edges and then run the brush down the edge. I think it would need a very low opacity brush setting.

I was wondering about the sky although I wasn't referencing it at all in my suggestion.. Its beautiful. And realistic. The only thing that I could think of that might be better might be a sky with just a hint of sunset in it to coordinate (rather than contrast) with the warm tones of the room. #10052824

Rita, at first I didn't see what you were talking about and then I finally realized that that was light coming from either the skylights or from the windows on the other side of the house. Very weird, actually. I didn't know I captured that. You can see faint areas on that side of the house where smaller amounts of light are on the walls. And Stephen, I think that is the way the painting was done or something because as I look at other areas in the image I am seeing that at other right angles the white is present throughout.

But I do want to play with the windows and see if I can come up with something warmer. #10053365

Beautiful architectual image Debbie...you are really good with capturing spaces. I can't offer any suggestions for this other than burning the midtones in the area of that middle window to diminish the haze from the light there. :~) Great colors! #10053447

Beautiful colors and great architectural interest. I could see this being on the cover of any high end home type magazine. The issues mentioned I believe to be minor and changed or not this is a great capture. #10053636

Thanks, Jeff. This was probably my 24-105L at the lowest end. I am actually getting better at tweaking the distortions I come across. Finally figured out how to use the transform tools like "skew", "distort", "rotate" and "scale".

Stephen, I tried to replace a different sky but guess I haven't come across one with the same tonality. I tried just adding warmth to the sky in the windows but that didn't do the trick either so for now I will probably keep it as it is. #10053691

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